Technology Design Skills and Careers

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

910 occupations report this skill · Category: Transferable Skills · O*NET element 2.B.3.b

Occupations reporting Technology Design

Importance and level are O*NET scale values. Ordered by reported importance. A skill rating does not indicate hiring outcomes.

OccupationImportanceLevelNational median wage
Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants1.60.6$35,670
Financial Managers1.60.9$166,570
Security Managers1.60.8$106,660
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters1.60.6$51,330
Precision Agriculture Technicians1.60.8$49,630
Environmental Engineers1.60.8$107,110
Surveyors1.60.6$75,440
Cartographers and Photogrammetrists1.60.8$81,390
Business Intelligence Analysts1.60.9$120,230
Data Scientists1.61.0$120,230
Biostatisticians1.61.0$105,650
Statisticians1.60.6$105,650
Mathematicians1.60.6$126,710
Insurance Underwriters1.60.6$81,370
Accountants and Auditors1.60.8$83,680
Business Continuity Planners1.60.8$83,050
Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters1.60.9$62,620
Biologists1.60.6$98,920
Foresters1.61.3$76,400
Chemists1.61.0$91,240
Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic1.60.8$49,030
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists1.60.6$100,580
School Psychologists1.60.6$95,990
Neuropsychologists1.60.6$110,840
Sociologists1.60.6$106,030
Urban and Regional Planners1.61.1$89,320
Transportation Planners1.61.0$101,110
Government Property Inspectors and Investigators1.60.8$80,730
Nuclear Monitoring Technicians1.60.6$110,240
Quality Control Analysts1.61.1$62,280
Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic1.60.8$52,800
Aviation Inspectors1.60.8$92,100
Rehabilitation Counselors1.60.6$46,850
Healthcare Social Workers1.60.8$67,880
Judicial Law Clerks1.60.8$64,920
Paralegals and Legal Assistants1.60.6$62,890
Business Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.6$99,080
Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.6$79,940
Facilities Managers1.60.9$106,660
Physics Teachers, Postsecondary1.61.0$100,310
Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.6$99,650
Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation1.60.9$92,100
Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.8$80,340
Education Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.8$75,350
Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.6$78,620
Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary1.60.6$80,260
Cytotechnologists1.50.4—
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive1.50.5$47,540
Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists1.50.5—
Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers1.50.5$96,710

Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.